Discover Serenity with Garden Fountains

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Your mood is favorably influenced by having water in your garden. The sounds of a fountain are great to drown out the noise in your neighborhood or in the city where you live. This is the perfect spot to relax and experience the natural world around you. Water treatments are common these days and often take place in the mountains or near beaches and rivers. So if you want a tiny piece of heaven nearby, a pond or fountain in your own garden is the answer.

The Wide Array of Outdoor Wall Water Fountains

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A small patio or a courtyard is a great spot to put your wall fountain when you seek out peace and quiet. Additionally, it can be designed to fit into any wall space since it does not occupy much room. Whether it is stand alone or fitted, you will need a spout, a water basin, internal piping, and a pump. Traditional, contemporary, antique, and Asian are just some of the styles from which you can choose.

Freestanding wall fountains, commonly known as floor fountains, are noticeably big and feature a basin on the ground.

You can choose to place your wall-mounted fountain on an existing wall or build it into a new wall. The appearance of your landscape will seem more unified instead of disjointed when you put in this style of fountain.

At What Point Did Water Fountains Originate?

At What Point Did Water Fountains Originate? Hundreds of ancient Greek texts were translated into Latin under the authority of the scholarly Pope Nicholas V, who led the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455. It was important for him to embellish the city of Rome to make it worthy of being called the capital of the Christian world. In 1453 the Pope commissioned the reconstruction of the Aqua Vergine, an ancient Roman aqueduct which had carried fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away. The ancient Roman tradition of marking the entry point of an aqueduct with an imposing celebratory fountain, also known as a mostra, was restored by Nicholas V. At the bidding of the Pope, architect Leon Battista Alberti undertook the construction of a wall fountain in the place where we now find the Trevi Fountain. The aqueduct he had refurbished included modifications and extensions which eventually allowed it to supply water to the Trevi Fountain as well as the famed baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona.